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by colonial 1y ago
Defaulting to Android-style nanny sandboxing ("you can't grant access to your Downloads folder because we say so" etc.) is unlikely to go over well with the average Linux distro userbase. Also, maximally opt-in sandboxes for
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by colonial 1y ago
CS/CE undergrad here who entered university right when ChatGPT hit. Things are bad at my large state school. People who spent the past two years offloading their entry-level work onto LLMs are now taking 400-level systems programming
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by colonial 1y ago
Buildah is the only serious alternative in my opinion. You lose automatic layer caching, but in exchange you can use the same tools (RUN, ADD, etc) within a much more powerful shell environment. I wrote a Buildah wrapper that uses a shell s
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by colonial 1y ago
> I think it might work to pass in larger companies where HR use automated systems to triage applicants. I don't know if this is true per se, but many job seekers in online forums seem to believe it is. Typically, keyword stuffing
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by colonial 2y ago
> AI lab founders believe they are in a civilizational competition for control of the entire future lightcone, and will be made Dictator of the Universe if they succeed. Bingo, but I'd argue this is only scratching the surface of ho
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by colonial 2y ago
Less than 5%. OpenAI's O1 burned through over $100 in tokens during the test as well!
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by colonial 2y ago
Worse, some professors encourage this! I had a data structures professor (over a year ago now) that actively encouraged a class of sophomores - most of whom were fresh out of "intro to Java" - to have Copilot (GPT-4 at the time
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by colonial 2y ago
Every Android "gallery"-type app I've ever used defaults to a view that mixes together every known album/folder on the device. That works fine (and is in fact easier than remembering the exact album) when I get to pick a
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by colonial 2y ago
True, but God does WhatsApp suck. They've got a billion-strong userbase and yet the Android app still dumped literally every attachment I received into my camera roll until I manually added '.nomedia' files in the right pla
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by colonial 2y ago
WASM is also great for enabling web apps to locally perform tasks that would be compute/bandwidth intensive if foisted upon the server. E.x. the Cobalt video downloader has an experimental on-device video remuxing feature that uses FFm
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by colonial 2y ago
Anecdotally, my 2023 Kia's infotainment unit is one big plastic box that I was able to access by just prying up some plastic and undoing a handful of screws. I was applying some dielectric grease to the USB port used for Android Auto (
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by colonial 2y ago
I wish more people were aware of this. I'm often reminded of a conversation I overheard at my high school retail job: $OLDGUY_CUSTOMER (to my coworker): "Wow, I just saw a big crash on [nearby arterial road]! The entire front of t
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by colonial 2y ago
Perhaps you could stick the phone and earbuds in a (non-running) microwave. They keep 2.4GHz in just fine, and Faraday cages don't discriminate based on direction. You might have to line the inner walls with something to prevent the si
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by colonial 2y ago
What I'd like to know are the demographics of the people using the delivery apps. Everyone I know refuses to touch them due to the massive extra costs piled on top, but whenever I swing by somewhere in-person to get takeout, I have t
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by colonial 2y ago
At least on the compiler level, LLVM already offers a "black box" intrinsic that nudges the optimizer to be maximally pessimistic about whatever it wraps. It doesn't carry any security guarantees (Rust's documentation on
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by colonial 2y ago
One thing in particular that bugs me about Macbooks is the fail-deadly hardware security. Disk encryption is good , yes - I use LUKS myself - but it tends to backfire on regular consumers if done poorly. I've had to tell far too many
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by colonial 2y ago
Again, that's the "god in a box" premise. In the real world, you wouldn't need a perfectly timed and coordinated response, just like we haven't needed one for human-programmed worms. Any threat can be physically iso
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by colonial 2y ago
Self-improvement (in the "hard takeoff" sense) is hardly a given, and hostile self-replication is nothing special in the software realm (see: worms.) Any technically competent human knows the foolproof strategy for malware removal
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by colonial 2y ago
I think this is correct. I refuse to touch Chromium with a ten-foot pole, but there aren't really any other options on Linux. (Yes, there is LibreWolf and other forks, but I doubt any have the resources to "go it alone" shoul
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by colonial 2y ago
Behavior like this is why I'm fairly convinced OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir. The singularity/AI doom pseudo-religion really messes some people up.
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by colonial 2y ago
At least in Rust (which has an effectively identical API here) the only reasonable use case I've seen is as a "last resort" in long-running programs to transform panicking requests into a HTTP 500 or equivalent.
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by colonial 2y ago
Where OCaml lost me was the packaging and building story. Dear Lord am I spoilt by Cargo. Nice language otherwise.
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by colonial 2y ago
"Curly-brace language" is a good way to put it. Rust does an excellent job of cribbing features that aren't mainstream and giving them a more intuitive name and design. Most people will conk out if you start talking about how
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by colonial 2y ago
re: try keyword in Rust - this is actually a thing on nightly, although instead of bubbling up errors directly, it creates a scope (within which ? is usable) that evaluates to a Result.
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by colonial 2y ago
It's frankly ridiculous that people thousands of miles away in Washington have any say over what goes on in our bathrooms (modulo basic safety strictures.) My current apartment came with a showerhead that (I assume) was compliant wit
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by colonial 2y ago
> as a "civilian" software developer. Well, there's plenty of civilian space companies these days! It's largely embedded-oriented (code that controls launch vehicles and satellites) from what I've seen, but the o
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by colonial 2y ago
Re: Ed Zitron - here is his recent piece that the parent is referencing: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/ If you find yourself agreeing, I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.
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by colonial 2y ago
I configure all my development containers to mount my host's Wayland socket. It mostly Just Works, and obviates the need to do any shell shuffling if I need to run something with a graphical component. It's also occasionally conve
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by colonial 2y ago
The problem with this is that even seemingly basic, obviously desirable proposals can take years of labor and politicking to get through the committee. See JeanHeyd Meneide's valiant struggle to get an #embed preprocessor directive s
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by colonial 2y ago
I agree with you, but I will say that Markdown (or at least, all the major "standards" for it) support interleaving HTML both inline and at the block level. Unless you are writing a very bombastic document or want to avoid a ren

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